fscrypt: clarify what is meant by a per-file key

Now that there's sometimes a second type of per-file key (the dirhash
key), clarify some function names, macros, and documentation that
specifically deal with per-file *encryption* keys.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200120223201.241390-4-ebiggers@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>

Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst

@@ -234,8 +234,8 @@ HKDF is more flexible, is nonreversible, and evenly distributes
 entropy from the master key.  HKDF is also standardized and widely
 used by other software, whereas the AES-128-ECB based KDF is ad-hoc.
 
-Per-file keys
--------------
+Per-file encryption keys
+------------------------
 
 Since each master key can protect many files, it is necessary to
 "tweak" the encryption of each file so that the same plaintext in two
@@ -268,9 +268,9 @@ is greater than that of an AES-256-XTS key.
 Therefore, to improve performance and save memory, for Adiantum a
 "direct key" configuration is supported.  When the user has enabled
 this by setting FSCRYPT_POLICY_FLAG_DIRECT_KEY in the fscrypt policy,
-per-file keys are not used.  Instead, whenever any data (contents or
-filenames) is encrypted, the file's 16-byte nonce is included in the
-IV.  Moreover:
+per-file encryption keys are not used.  Instead, whenever any data
+(contents or filenames) is encrypted, the file's 16-byte nonce is
+included in the IV.  Moreover:
 
 - For v1 encryption policies, the encryption is done directly with the
   master key.  Because of this, users **must not** use the same master
@@ -335,11 +335,11 @@ used.
 Adiantum is a (primarily) stream cipher-based mode that is fast even
 on CPUs without dedicated crypto instructions.  It's also a true
 wide-block mode, unlike XTS.  It can also eliminate the need to derive
-per-file keys.  However, it depends on the security of two primitives,
-XChaCha12 and AES-256, rather than just one.  See the paper
-"Adiantum: length-preserving encryption for entry-level processors"
-(https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/720.pdf) for more details.  To use
-Adiantum, CONFIG_CRYPTO_ADIANTUM must be enabled.  Also, fast
+per-file encryption keys.  However, it depends on the security of two
+primitives, XChaCha12 and AES-256, rather than just one.  See the
+paper "Adiantum: length-preserving encryption for entry-level
+processors" (https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/720.pdf) for more details.
+To use Adiantum, CONFIG_CRYPTO_ADIANTUM must be enabled.  Also, fast
 implementations of ChaCha and NHPoly1305 should be enabled, e.g.
 CONFIG_CRYPTO_CHACHA20_NEON and CONFIG_CRYPTO_NHPOLY1305_NEON for ARM.
 
@@ -1149,8 +1149,8 @@ The context structs contain the same information as the corresponding
 policy structs (see `Setting an encryption policy`_), except that the
 context structs also contain a nonce.  The nonce is randomly generated
 by the kernel and is used as KDF input or as a tweak to cause
-different files to be encrypted differently; see `Per-file keys`_ and
-`DIRECT_KEY policies`_.
+different files to be encrypted differently; see `Per-file encryption
+keys`_ and `DIRECT_KEY policies`_.
 
 Data path changes
 -----------------

fs/crypto/fscrypt_private.h

@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ extern int fscrypt_init_hkdf(struct fscrypt_hkdf *hkdf, const u8 *master_key,
  * output doesn't reveal another.
  */
 #define HKDF_CONTEXT_KEY_IDENTIFIER	1
-#define HKDF_CONTEXT_PER_FILE_KEY	2
+#define HKDF_CONTEXT_PER_FILE_ENC_KEY	2
 #define HKDF_CONTEXT_DIRECT_KEY		3
 #define HKDF_CONTEXT_IV_INO_LBLK_64_KEY	4
 #define HKDF_CONTEXT_DIRHASH_KEY	5
@@ -441,8 +441,8 @@ extern struct crypto_skcipher *
 fscrypt_allocate_skcipher(struct fscrypt_mode *mode, const u8 *raw_key,
 			  const struct inode *inode);
 
-extern int fscrypt_set_derived_key(struct fscrypt_info *ci,
-				   const u8 *derived_key);
+extern int fscrypt_set_per_file_enc_key(struct fscrypt_info *ci,
+					const u8 *raw_key);
 
 extern int fscrypt_derive_dirhash_key(struct fscrypt_info *ci,
 				      const struct fscrypt_master_key *mk);

fs/crypto/keysetup.c

@@ -107,12 +107,12 @@ struct crypto_skcipher *fscrypt_allocate_skcipher(struct fscrypt_mode *mode,
 	return ERR_PTR(err);
 }
 
-/* Given the per-file key, set up the file's crypto transform object */
-int fscrypt_set_derived_key(struct fscrypt_info *ci, const u8 *derived_key)
+/* Given a per-file encryption key, set up the file's crypto transform object */
+int fscrypt_set_per_file_enc_key(struct fscrypt_info *ci, const u8 *raw_key)
 {
 	struct crypto_skcipher *tfm;
 
-	tfm = fscrypt_allocate_skcipher(ci->ci_mode, derived_key, ci->ci_inode);
+	tfm = fscrypt_allocate_skcipher(ci->ci_mode, raw_key, ci->ci_inode);
 	if (IS_ERR(tfm))
 		return PTR_ERR(tfm);
 
@@ -121,10 +121,10 @@ int fscrypt_set_derived_key(struct fscrypt_info *ci, const u8 *derived_key)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static int setup_per_mode_key(struct fscrypt_info *ci,
-			      struct fscrypt_master_key *mk,
-			      struct crypto_skcipher **tfms,
-			      u8 hkdf_context, bool include_fs_uuid)
+static int setup_per_mode_enc_key(struct fscrypt_info *ci,
+				  struct fscrypt_master_key *mk,
+				  struct crypto_skcipher **tfms,
+				  u8 hkdf_context, bool include_fs_uuid)
 {
 	const struct inode *inode = ci->ci_inode;
 	const struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
@@ -196,15 +196,15 @@ static int fscrypt_setup_v2_file_key(struct fscrypt_info *ci,
 
 	if (ci->ci_policy.v2.flags & FSCRYPT_POLICY_FLAG_DIRECT_KEY) {
 		/*
-		 * DIRECT_KEY: instead of deriving per-file keys, the per-file
-		 * nonce will be included in all the IVs.  But unlike v1
-		 * policies, for v2 policies in this case we don't encrypt with
-		 * the master key directly but rather derive a per-mode key.
-		 * This ensures that the master key is consistently used only
-		 * for HKDF, avoiding key reuse issues.
+		 * DIRECT_KEY: instead of deriving per-file encryption keys, the
+		 * per-file nonce will be included in all the IVs.  But unlike
+		 * v1 policies, for v2 policies in this case we don't encrypt
+		 * with the master key directly but rather derive a per-mode
+		 * encryption key.  This ensures that the master key is
+		 * consistently used only for HKDF, avoiding key reuse issues.
 		 */
-		err = setup_per_mode_key(ci, mk, mk->mk_direct_tfms,
-					 HKDF_CONTEXT_DIRECT_KEY, false);
+		err = setup_per_mode_enc_key(ci, mk, mk->mk_direct_tfms,
+					     HKDF_CONTEXT_DIRECT_KEY, false);
 	} else if (ci->ci_policy.v2.flags &
 		   FSCRYPT_POLICY_FLAG_IV_INO_LBLK_64) {
 		/*
@@ -213,20 +213,21 @@ static int fscrypt_setup_v2_file_key(struct fscrypt_info *ci,
 		 * the IVs.  This format is optimized for use with inline
 		 * encryption hardware compliant with the UFS or eMMC standards.
 		 */
-		err = setup_per_mode_key(ci, mk, mk->mk_iv_ino_lblk_64_tfms,
-					 HKDF_CONTEXT_IV_INO_LBLK_64_KEY, true);
+		err = setup_per_mode_enc_key(ci, mk, mk->mk_iv_ino_lblk_64_tfms,
+					     HKDF_CONTEXT_IV_INO_LBLK_64_KEY,
+					     true);
 	} else {
 		u8 derived_key[FSCRYPT_MAX_KEY_SIZE];
 
 		err = fscrypt_hkdf_expand(&mk->mk_secret.hkdf,
-					  HKDF_CONTEXT_PER_FILE_KEY,
+					  HKDF_CONTEXT_PER_FILE_ENC_KEY,
 					  ci->ci_nonce,
 					  FS_KEY_DERIVATION_NONCE_SIZE,
 					  derived_key, ci->ci_mode->keysize);
 		if (err)
 			return err;
 
-		err = fscrypt_set_derived_key(ci, derived_key);
+		err = fscrypt_set_per_file_enc_key(ci, derived_key);
 		memzero_explicit(derived_key, ci->ci_mode->keysize);
 	}
 	if (err)

fs/crypto/keysetup_v1.c

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
  * This file implements compatibility functions for the original encryption
  * policy version ("v1"), including:
  *
- * - Deriving per-file keys using the AES-128-ECB based KDF
+ * - Deriving per-file encryption keys using the AES-128-ECB based KDF
  *   (rather than the new method of using HKDF-SHA512)
  *
  * - Retrieving fscrypt master keys from process-subscribed keyrings
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ static int setup_v1_file_key_derived(struct fscrypt_info *ci,
 	if (err)
 		goto out;
 
-	err = fscrypt_set_derived_key(ci, derived_key);
+	err = fscrypt_set_per_file_enc_key(ci, derived_key);
 out:
 	kzfree(derived_key);
 	return err;